Berta and I went to IndyHall's movie night on Saturday to hang out in the city and to watch the first of the two films in the double-feature, "Office Space". We got to talk to a few of the folks down there, both some people we knew and some people we met for the first time.
The event was sponsored by Philly Car Share, which is an interesting organization that offers shared vehicles to city-dwellers. You basically make a reservation, and you get a car for a few hours. It's kind of like renting, I suppose, but it's a more comfortable plan. The cars are where you might need them to be, parked in nearby lots, rather than centrally at a rental place. And they have all different kinds of cars, so if you needed a trunk or a van, they've got that, or for a night out on the town, a convertible or BMW is obtainable. Neat idea for folks that live downtown, especially.
We don't have much use for the service, since we'd have to drive our own cars to anywhere where a carshare car would be waiting, and that doesn't make much sense. In talking to people who have more use for these services, I discovered an interesting distinction of what is "city" and "suburb", and it was amusing to me to see how the line moves depending on which side of it you primarily dwell....
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